Articles from May 2016

They say that children have much to teach us..well, this young man certainly does. And yes I have tagged this as “Our heroes”..to me, he is. Totally unafraid and ready to fight back, teddybear in hand. Courage needs witnesses.

The story originally appeared at AFP, but it has for, we’re sure, utterly mysterious reasons, disappeared down the memory hole. Thankfully, the Internet is Forever™, but we’d better hurry up before the New Stasi™ (better than the Old Stasi™, with added electrolytes!) finds out. A German man, who officials said had drug and psychological problems,

“He’s the nominee. I’ll do whatever he wants with respect to the convention,” Ryan said when asked about that scenario in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel… “I never said never. I just said (not) at this point. I wish I had more time to get to know him before this happened. We just

This is your government at work. When I retired from the FAA at the age of 52, I was told “you can earn any amount of money. It doesn’t affect your retirement pay”. A portion of my pay is a SSI supplemental, designed to protect my pay between mandatory retirement (age 55) and the earliest

From one end to the other. It’s long, but we found ourself nodding so furiously all the way through that we’re afraid that we’ve irreparably damaged our cervical vertebrae. An excerpt about the so-called “Right” of today, but do go read the whole thing. LC Ironbear nails it to the wall. the Right has been

At least the neverending primary is finally over, and we may all be grateful for that. As to the result? That depends on who you are, we suppose. His Imperial Majesty didn’t get the candidate he wanted, but we have to admit that we’re a great deal less heartbroken about it today than we would

(Via Bill Quick) Looks like somebody is pouring salt in our Iraqi victory soup again, somebody you might have heard about before: “Baghdad teetered on the edge of political chaos Sunday. The city is in a state of emergency, protesters have occupied parts of the once-secure International Zone (IZ), lawmakers have run away and the